Nearly two thirds of all adult firearm deaths in the USA are suicides, and around half of suicides in the USA are by gun.
Around 90% of people who attempt suicide with a gun will die, while 90% of those who attempt suicide by other methods will survive, and they're unlikely to ever attempt suicide again.
Suicide is very often an impulsive act. You can commit suicide by all sorts of methods, but almost all of them require at least some forethought and preparation. Having a highly lethal means of committing suicide close at hand means that momentary despair very often leads to death.
But perhaps the NRA has been so effective at selling you their "guns don't kill" bullshit that you're unable to see that there's a fundamental difference between picking up a gun and twitching your index finger and shoving a knife in your chest or hacking away at your wrists.
Ignore the statistics, keep on drinking the NRA Kool Aid and continue ranting about your sacred Second Amendment rights if you want, but I suggest you also keep on hoping that life doesn't dump a huge load of crap on you or someone you love while you have a gun in the house.
You need to relax. You can easily stick a knife in your heart don't act like you need to prepare for that or that that takes a lot of effort. You could crash your car impulsively too. The reason for guns being high in suicides is because people have them and its kind of always put on tv that that's how people easily kill themselves but if you don't have them then you would just choose something else just as easy. Trust me suicides are high in my family. Knife to the chest is easy. So is driving your car into a lake. ect ect.
I don't even own a gun and I don't even look at what the NRA says most of the time. I'm just thinking with my brain. Don't stereotype people like that.
I believe that suicide can be a reasonable decision in some circumstances. If someone in a rational state of mind thinks through all their options carefully, weighs up all the possibilities and fully considers how it will affect those they leave behind, then they should be free to end it all by the most efficient and humane means possible.
The problem is, that's not how it goes for the majority of people who commit suicide.
BTW, on a slightly lighter note, there's a character in Amazon's Preacher who botched a shotgun suicide. He's called "Arseface" for a very good reason.
Is suicide like normal in a family?
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Nearly two thirds of all adult firearm deaths in the USA are suicides, and around half of suicides in the USA are by gun.
Around 90% of people who attempt suicide with a gun will die, while 90% of those who attempt suicide by other methods will survive, and they're unlikely to ever attempt suicide again.
Suicide is very often an impulsive act. You can commit suicide by all sorts of methods, but almost all of them require at least some forethought and preparation. Having a highly lethal means of committing suicide close at hand means that momentary despair very often leads to death.
But perhaps the NRA has been so effective at selling you their "guns don't kill" bullshit that you're unable to see that there's a fundamental difference between picking up a gun and twitching your index finger and shoving a knife in your chest or hacking away at your wrists.
Ignore the statistics, keep on drinking the NRA Kool Aid and continue ranting about your sacred Second Amendment rights if you want, but I suggest you also keep on hoping that life doesn't dump a huge load of crap on you or someone you love while you have a gun in the house.
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You need to relax. You can easily stick a knife in your heart don't act like you need to prepare for that or that that takes a lot of effort. You could crash your car impulsively too. The reason for guns being high in suicides is because people have them and its kind of always put on tv that that's how people easily kill themselves but if you don't have them then you would just choose something else just as easy. Trust me suicides are high in my family. Knife to the chest is easy. So is driving your car into a lake. ect ect.
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I don't even own a gun and I don't even look at what the NRA says most of the time. I'm just thinking with my brain. Don't stereotype people like that.
TBH dude id rather successfully die rather than be disfigured for the rest of my life.
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I believe that suicide can be a reasonable decision in some circumstances. If someone in a rational state of mind thinks through all their options carefully, weighs up all the possibilities and fully considers how it will affect those they leave behind, then they should be free to end it all by the most efficient and humane means possible.
The problem is, that's not how it goes for the majority of people who commit suicide.
BTW, on a slightly lighter note, there's a character in Amazon's Preacher who botched a shotgun suicide. He's called "Arseface" for a very good reason.